Celeste Files: Unjust by Kristine Mason

Author:Kristine Mason [Mason, Kristine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 24821088
Publisher: Kristine Mason
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

CELESTE BLINKED SEVERAL times when fluorescent overhead lighting needled her eyes. As the room came into focus, and she realized John was sitting next to her, and that they were at the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, she drew in a deep, shaky breath.

John put an arm around her shoulder. “Are you okay?”

She’d once again witnessed a woman’s murder. “No,” she said on a sob, and glanced to the picture she still held in her hand. “I’m not okay.”

“What happened? What did you see?”

Ignoring her husband, she quickly jotted down Blake’s license plate number before it vanished from her memory, along with everything else Solana had showed her. When she was finished, she tore the sheet of paper from the notepad, slid it toward John, then reached for another woman’s picture.

“Wait, what are you doing?” he asked, and looked to what she’d written. “Is this a license plate number?”

She nodded. “Mind passing that along to Nick and Jerry?” She opened the plastic bag and pulled the next picture free. “I’m going to find out what happened to this woman.”

The door to the room burst open as Jerry, Nick and Lola rushed inside. “Hold up,” Jerry said, snatching the paper off the table. “Before we have you pursue any more leads for us, let’s see if the ones you have here even pan out. I don’t want to waste your time or ours.” He pulled his cell phone from his pocket, then placed a call, telling the person on the other end to run the plate number Celeste had written down, and to also send the woman’s name over to Missing Persons to see if they had a match. After he ended the call, he passed her notes to Nick. “Celeste, can you expand on what you wrote?”

“Actually, I’d like to know how you were speaking fluent Spanish,” John said.

“Yes,” Lola added. “When you were…with the woman, you were talking so quickly Nick had a difficult time keeping up with the translation.”

“Really?” Celeste asked. “What was I saying?”

Nick shrugged. “It was weird, like you were three different people. At one point you were telling a woman how beautiful she was, and how much you’d like to be with her, if only her parents approved of you. Then you took on a different tone, and said something about needing to hurry up because the boat was ready.”

“And the third person?” Celeste asked, suspecting what Nick had heard.

“You used the name Miguel, and said your parents just don’t understand the love between the two of you. Then you got this strange look on your face, and asked why?”

“A very strange and all too familiar look,” John said, his dark eyes holding concern and the hint of anger.

She blinked back the tears, and looked away from her husband. Since they’d met, John had watched four murder victims as they’d used her body to show their deaths. Today was number five. And there were still dozens of pictures to go through.

“What’s weird,” she began, trying

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